Ok, heres how it goes. A few years ago I got bobo, never had a single problem with him and totally in love with him. I've always been wanting more but we lived on base and it was already illegal for us to have one. Well, we moved and now own a house. Since we were stable, I decided I wanted another snake so with our income tax money, I bought a w/c gravid girl. When she first got here I inspected her, set her up in a tank where all sides were covered, gave her hides and water bowls. She hates the hides, pushes them out of her way. loves the corner of the tank but not to be in a hide.

Here comes my problems, She had two good eggs, which we lost due to my kid thinking she was being helpful and turning the incubator up, but that's ok because now i have a male and a female and can try again another year. But the day after Hadiya had her eggs I went to inspect her and make sure she was ok. She hadn't shed and looks very glossy and dry to me. My husband helped me and we found her covered in ticks. i don't mean one or two but over the week after she laid her eggs we have pulled off over 35 ticks. I couldn't believe it. the few weeks before she laid her eggs I checked on her every day and never saw one. We treated her with tick and mite stuff, cleaned her cage. scrubbed her, soaked her.. everything everyone suggested. I try to wait a few days between treat ments and handling because it stresses her, but I feel so bad when I pick her up again and find more ticks. The seller just told me to use flea and tick stuff from wal mart and that the ticks were probably from my house. This upset me because I have cats, rabbits, another snake, and us humans in the house and none of us have ticks.

To top everything off, Hadiya won't eat, hasn't shed, and just yesterday i picked her up and found another tick.... I'm at my wits end with this. please let me know if you have any ideas that will help.